Nicki Minaj ‘Haunted’ By Teen Pregnancy

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Nicki Minaj has never shared this much with her fans, but until recently she would never confirm that she was in a relationship, although it was pretty obvious. But in her new interview with Rolling Stone she talks more about the hard decision to end her teenage pregnancy. Minaj says she felt ‘haunted’ all these years but she confesses she was ‘not ready’ for a child.

Minaj’s first love was an older guy from Queens she dated while attending the prestigious Manhattan performing-arts high school LaGuardia. When she discovered she was pregnant, “I thought I was going to die,” she admits. “I was a teenager. It was the hardest thing I’d ever gone through.” She ended up having an abortion, a decision she says has “haunted me all my life,” though it was the right choice for her at the time. “It’d be contradictory if I said I wasn’t pro-choice. I wasn’t ready. I didn’t have anything to offer a child.” She first rapped about the experience on a mixtape track called “Autobiography” she says she “didn’t expect anyone to hear.” Now the world is listening to every word she says very carefully: “Millions of people are gonna hear it. And you gotta watch everything you say — people find an issue with every fucking thing.”